Quotes About Interpretation

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Art is not about understanding, it's about experience.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.